Why should Amazon spent 970 million knives of money buy Twitch

　　Weifeng Web on March 19, when about 1.5 years ago, Amazon for $ 970 million completed a history of the company's largest acquisition, the acquired object is a Twitch, a game Web sites and communities, their originality lies: at the time, the monthly volume of 55 million active users! It is very scary a number. At the time, Amazon CEO says: "play and watch the game play is becoming a global phenomenon. Twitch to build the platform, was watched by tens of millions of users a month number 1 billion minutes of video games. Surprising is that Twitch was founded just three years ' time. Just like Twitch, our obsession for the user, and want to think in a different way. We expect from Twitch reference, and help them for faster gaming community to create new services. " Taktik iPhone 5 Case

　　And now, they also seem to have a deeper purpose, because in recent years began to develop into the field of virtual reality "game developers Conference" (The Game Developers Conference) attracted the concern of many technology companies, and most of these technology giants as their own is a great opportunity for the future development of the game.

　　Was rather surprised that the Amazon has also appeared on the show, in the booth of the company's core product is the recently introduced its game engine Amazon Lumberyard. Amazon said, is still in the Beta stage of the Lumberyard already supports WindowsVista, Win 7, Win 8, Win 10, PS4 and Xbox One platform, expected a few months later will also support VR and mobile platforms. Moreover, through this engine build game can be managed directly through Amazon Web services, as well as integrate Twitch live. For example, users can set the accelerator TwitchChatplay and Tiwtch JoinIn, and invited new audiences to join the game.

　　For Amazon, buy Twitch is to improve Amazon Amazon Web services (Amazon Web Services) long-term competitiveness and game engine by Amazon Lumberyard for a strategic investment. And for game developers, this combination is very attractive. Since Twitch now has a total of more than 100 million users, this user base is still growing, and accumulation of the platform the user watch live has more than 7.5 billion minutes of time, which makes it a huge user community contacts directly to the game developer has just developed a promotion for the new game will have a tremendous boost.

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